List of environmental health hazards
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'Environmental hazard' is the state of events which has the potential to threaten the surrounding natural environment and adversely affect people's health. This term incorporates topics like pollution and natural disasters such as storms and earthquakes. Hazards can be categorized in five types:
- Chemical
- Physical
- Mechanical
- Biological
- Psychosocial
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- Allergens
- Anthrax
- Antibiotic agents in animals destined for human consumption
- Arbovirus
- Arsenic - a contaminant of fresh water sources (water wells)
- Asbestos - carcinogenic
- Avian influenza
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
- Carcinogens
- Cholera
- Cosmic rays
- DDT
- dioxins
- Drought
- Dysentery
- Electromagnetic fields
- Endocrine disruptors
- Epidemics
- E-waste
- Explosive material
- Floods
- Food poisoning
- Fungicides
- Furans
- Haloalkanes
- Heavy metals
- Herbicides
- Hormones in animals destined for human consumption
- Lead in paint
- Light pollution
- Lighting
- Lightning
- Malaria
- Marine debris
- mercury
- Molds
- Mutagens
- Noise pollution
- Onchocerciasis (river blindness)
- Pandemics
- Pathogens
- Pesticides
- Pollen for allergic people
- Polychlorinated biphenyls
- Quicksand
- Rabies
- Radon and other natural sources of radioactivity
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
- Sick building syndrome
- Soil pollution
- Tobacco smoking
- Toxic waste
- Ultraviolet light
- vibration
- Wildfire
- X-rays
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